Tom Malone
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Tom Malone is an American trombonist and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with The Blues Brothers Band and as a longtime member of the Saturday Night Live Band.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Malone canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3150614 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Malone Context triple: [The Blues Brothers Band, hasMember, Tom Malone]
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A.
Jack Mullaney
Jack Mullaney was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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B.
Max O’Hara
Max O’Hara is a fast-talking, ambitious showman and nightclub promoter who brings the giant gorilla Joe to Hollywood in the 1949 adventure film "Mighty Joe Young."
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C.
Pete Campbell
Pete Campbell is an ambitious and often morally conflicted advertising account executive in the television drama series "Mad Men."
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D.
Mickey Madden
Mickey Madden is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the pop-rock band Maroon 5.
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E.
Tim DuBois
Tim DuBois is an American music executive and songwriter best known for his influential role in shaping modern country music and developing major artists in Nashville.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Malone Target entity description: Tom Malone is an American trombonist and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with The Blues Brothers Band and as a longtime member of the Saturday Night Live Band.
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A.
Jack Mullaney
Jack Mullaney was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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B.
Max O’Hara
Max O’Hara is a fast-talking, ambitious showman and nightclub promoter who brings the giant gorilla Joe to Hollywood in the 1949 adventure film "Mighty Joe Young."
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C.
Pete Campbell
Pete Campbell is an ambitious and often morally conflicted advertising account executive in the television drama series "Mad Men."
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D.
Mickey Madden
Mickey Madden is an American musician best known as the longtime bassist for the pop-rock band Maroon 5.
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E.
Tim DuBois
Tim DuBois is an American music executive and songwriter best known for his influential role in shaping modern country music and developing major artists in Nashville.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arranger
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bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ trombonist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| familyName | Malone ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music arrangement
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music performance ⓘ television music ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
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jazz ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ rock ⓘ soul ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| instrument |
EWI
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bass trombone ⓘ flute ⓘ saxophone ⓘ trombone ⓘ trumpet ⓘ tuba ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Saturday Night Live Band
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The Blues Brothers Band ⓘ |
| name | Tom Malone self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
longtime member of the Saturday Night Live Band
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work with The Blues Brothers Band ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Saturday Night Live Band
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The Blues Brothers ⓘ
surface form:
The Blues Brothers (film)
The Blues Brothers Band ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
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bandleader ⓘ composer ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ trombonist ⓘ trumpeter ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Briefcase Full of Blues
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Made in America (The Blues Brothers album) ⓘ The Blues Brothers ⓘ
surface form:
The Blues Brothers (film)
The Blues Brothers: Original Soundtrack Recording ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tom Malone Description of subject: Tom Malone is an American trombonist and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with The Blues Brothers Band and as a longtime member of the Saturday Night Live Band.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Blues Brothers Band
subject surface form:
Made in America